Will GTA VI have a shopping mall

[Uncoupledspy]

I think the idea of a shopping mall will be fantastic for gta vi, think about it everything u want to buy all in one location spot, then after your shopping turn it to a shopping mall massacre.

[Zello]

Not necessary tbh. We already have stores we just need more of them. A mall would be very boring imo.

[Lotte]

I think it'd be cool to have a mall but not to actually shop? It's always cool to take a peek into retail spaces, especially if it's set in the past, and the halls of a shopping mall are easily wide enough to fit several cars, so if the entrances are smashable then that's an alternative and fun little shortcut you can take

[B_E_N_1992]

Yes I’d like it.

 

Like North Point Mall in Vice City, but you should be able to run around in it with no loading screens when entering. 

 

There would be lots of shops to hold up inside.

 

All kinds of shops would be inside to buy from; ammunation, burgershot, well stacked pizza, clothes shops, 24/7’s etc.

 

The other mall, Washington Mall In Vice City has a open roof which would also be good to have. You can walk straight into the area of the shops.

 

For online, players entering the area would automatically go into passive mode, but if they try to rob a store they would come out of it, and other players could kill them if they wish.

Edited August 3, 2019 by B_E_N_1992

[Dock]

I actually do think we'll get something like a mall, but with the intention of having it be a player hub for GTA Online. The new "Diamond Casino" that GTA Online just received is the first proper player hub the game's gotten for example. Shared parking space, a lobby with mini-games and an opportunity to win stuff, exclusive items (on a weekly-rotation), etc.

 

So yeah, its not too far fetched to expect a mall, or anything along those lines really.

Edited August 3, 2019 by Dock

[GTA-Biker]

I liked the mall in GTA VC,from going to different stores to buy stuff, to taking the Infernus parked as an exhibit and trying to drift through the mall, to starting fights with random NPC shoppers, to breaking store windows, to having a big shootout with those security guards and later cops,it was a fun place.I'd like if they would make something similar in the next game.

[IS90]

11 hours ago, Uncoupledspy said:

I think the idea of a shopping mall will be fantastic for gta vi, think about it everything u want to buy all in one location spot, then after your shopping turn it to a shopping mall massacre.

It could be real nice Mr. Spy but I think that the massacre part is exactly the reason why it's missing from previous games. Any real life issue will be directly linked to the game. Maybe if they make this type of buildings enterable, they could make them a "no gun" zone.

[DOUGL4S1]

Malls were specially useful in San Andreas with many clothing shops and restaurants nearby, and I do like that idea for more recent titles. However, malls nowadays are kinda... dying, so maybe some vacant stores too.

 

It could even be introduced in GTA Online, there is an inaccessible mall in the game (Rockford Plaza) and it would be a nice place to buy things for your character in peace.

[Grotti Vigilante]

A mall would actually be a nice thing to have in the HD era. Going online for a deathmatch, it would seem like a good place to have loads of action as well as good hiding spots and covering fire areas. For me and my friend though, we'd instead use unarmed homeless and scruffy people and set them to aggressive so we could pretend that we're in a zombie survival mode like Dawn of the Dead (or Dead Rising for that matter). I wouldn't be fussed if there wasn't a mall though, and it's not high on my priority list really.

[[Ambient]]

I hope yes.

[Emmi]

Hopefully, yes.

[KevinR1990]

A well-designed mall map would make a perfect GTA deathmatch arena. Multiple levels for verticality, diving into stores or behind kioskes for cover, a big open area in the lobby or food court for sniper duels, close-quarters combat inside the stores as players hide behind racks and shelves, tight corridors in the maintenance areas that let you sneak around, long and wide halls to drive a car through (from the parking garage or from the display, take your pick)... all in an environment that doesn't get more quintessentially 'Merican.

[TheGetawayDriver]

On 8/3/2019 at 12:00 AM, Uncoupledspy said:

I think the idea of a shopping mall will be fantastic for gta vi, think about it everything u want to buy all in one location spot

 

I think this could be interesting, shopping like RDR2 but on a bigger scale sounds good to me.

Edited August 3, 2019 by MostWantedMVP

[XXVIII]

Yes, of course..., but with full scale realism prevailing and zero budge on ambition, to where weaponry is permissible and the mall and all of its contents can succumb to destruction.

 

(This game...)

 

 

There are sure to be a spectrum of emotions felt. 

 

Is it 202? yet?

[Tacymist]

Something like North Point Mall would be nice. Honestly I just want more interiors to explore.

[YamatheKreature47]

I want every store to sell different things. I hate how in RDR2 every shop has the same clothes. There are only what two different shops in GTAV? GTAIV did it pretty well

[EVOLUT7ON]

On 8/3/2019 at 2:00 AM, Uncoupledspy said:

I think the idea of a shopping mall will be fantastic for gta vi, think about it everything u want to buy all in one location spot, then after your shopping turn it to a shopping mall massacre.

Yes, I would like to see the mall in the game. One mall per city and a few small shops around the city with an easy access from any district. Would be nice to see some shopping lotteries. For example, a permanent 25% sale on clothes in shop, or 50% sale on weapons (24h limit).

[universetwisters]

I want GTA 6 to take place exclusively within a shopping mall and if you try to leave, your console gets bricked and the police come to your house.

[Secura]

There's more than likely going to be a version of Amazon present in the game, I'd like if it there were a mall and a functional one, but having it there as a location to mainly source gear and items for your criminal activities anonymously would be a good use of it while still allowing for an online delivery system that you can pay for stuff for but it's trackable by the in-game law enforcement.

 

 

[Big Fat Paulie]

I'd love to see a mall in GTA VI, but it would work best only if GTA VI were a period piece in either the 1980's or 1990's, maybe the early 2000's at the latest.

 

Malls were a big part of American consumer culture all throughout the 80's and the 90's both, while in the 2000's, malls weren't really a key part of the culture although they weren't in the steep decline they are in the 2010's.

 

 

 

 

[Secura]

As mentioned, the mall isn't going to be the place you go to get long-term stuff, it could be there to allow you to by burner phones, gear for jobs and items needed that would raise suspicion if ordered via the game's online service.

 

On that note though it would be cool if there was also an abandoned mall site, could make for an interesting level or set piece, perhaps even a base of operations for you to run a side of your criminal enterprise from?

[Zello]

19 minutes ago, Finite said:

As mentioned, the mall isn't going to be the place you go to get long-term stuff, it could be there to allow you to by burner phones, gear for jobs and items needed that would raise suspicion if ordered via the game's online service.

You could easily get burner phones at 24/7 though.

[DexMacLeod]

A mall seems like the kind of place that would be neat to walk around inside of once or twice but get old really fast. I'd much rather they just have more stores scattered throughout the map in convenient locations.

 

I guess one thing they could do is have the 24/7 stocked with lots of useful stuff but that convenience comes with a high markup. Going to the mall would be considerably less convenient but everything's way cheaper.

 

Of course all of that would require a decent economy which isn't really Rockstar's strong suit. Typically you have so much money after the first couple missions that there's really no need to worry about prices.

 

3 hours ago, Big Fat Paulie said:

I'd love to see a mall in GTA VI, but it would work best only if GTA VI were a period piece in either the 1980's or 1990's, maybe the early 2000's at the latest.

 

Malls were a big part of American consumer culture all throughout the 80's and the 90's both, while in the 2000's, malls weren't really a key part of the culture although they weren't in the steep decline they are in the 2010's.

 

 

 

 

I think it'd work best in a modern setting, actually. There's no way they'd make every single store in the mall functional and a modern mall on the decline with a bunch of empty storefronts would be a good, logical way to block some of them off.

[J LaFleur]

GTA IV has one (Big Willis Mall) and GTA V has two (Rockford Plaza and Davis Mega Mall) but they’re all inaccessible

Edited August 17, 2019 by The Journey

[Emmi]

2 hours ago, The Journey said:

GTA IV has one (Big Willis Mall) and GTA V has two (Rockford Plaza and Davis Mega Mall) but they’re all inaccessible

... so they are a waste of space basically.

[J LaFleur]

4 hours ago, Emmi said:

... so they are a waste of space basically.

well by that logic GTA maps are mostly a waste of space then...

[Emmi]

3 hours ago, The Journey said:

well by that logic GTA maps are mostly a waste of space then...

... in reality its the sad truth though ... hence I grew kinda sick of these bigger and bigger maps that surve no purpose at all other than looking great, I guess.

I rather have a smaller-scaled but denser, more interactive, intimate map where I can enter almost or even every building, where I can discover and do something worthwile at every corner, where I can talk to any NPC and where every NPC is an individual character with a name and personality unique to him/her.

Some of you may remember that leaked document where several possible locations for GTA VI were listed, including this one: small town GTA: every building enterable, insane amount of detail, etc. Out of all the locations listed there, this was always the most appealing one in my opinion.

I just fear that we will never get such a 'smaller-scaled' GTA - smaller-scaled from a map-size perspective but certainly not from a gameplay aspect! - in a time where GTAO has proven so successful for Rockstar ... it just makes me sad because I think this would make for an amazing experience. This is also why GTA IV is still my favorite GTA to date, its map is the perfect size in my opinion and has lots of interactivity compared to GTAV's map which is first and foremost nice to look at but that's about it.

That's also one of the reasons I'm hoping that Bully 2 is indeed a thing ... this could be a game where R* can go all out with an insane level of detail, with making every building enterable, with making every NPC unique with a name, house, family, etc.

This in my opinion is what should define next-gen experiences, not just making the maps bigger and bigger with no meaning and no interactivity, just for the sake of making it the biggest open world.

Red Dead Redemption 2 already pushed NPC interaction and world interaction forward a lot and I hope Rockstar continues to expand on it massively for their next games.

 

I found the exact quote from that leaked document:

Small town GTA - tight stories, scheduled characters, ridiculous levels of ambience, every home interior modeled. Every building enterable. More realism - if you are wanted you are on the run for a while.

 

Edited August 17, 2019 by Emmi

[DexMacLeod]

I think the ideal situation would be for Rockstar to create a smaller studio that works on "smaller" games. Either take that small town idea and start a new IP or, as Emmi said, get that Bully 2 game out.

 

I sort of like GTA the way it is and don't really need it to have a boat load of places I can go inside or NPCs I can "talk to". If they can create a lot of places that actually have a purpose, a reason to be entered and something interesting to do once you're inside then, sure, I'll take that but if not I don't see that enterable building as any less useless than a non-enterable one.

 

In RDR2 for example, being able to go inside buildings and loot the place is kinda neat, at least it is at first, but a few hours into the game and you've got pretty much everything you need so there's no real reason to bother with that petty stuff. They could probably get around that by just balancing the economy better though.

 

I think the key is that if Rockstar is going to continue down this road of "realism" then they need to fully commit to it. In RDR2 it often felt half-assed and made the whole game feel a bit inconsistent. 

[Kris194]

Rockstar didn't want RDR 2 to be realistic but to feel realistic, that's what they were targeting with this and I think, every other game. Realistic game could be really annoying. That's what Rob Nelson said in an interview.

Edited August 17, 2019 by Kris194

[TCA]

On 8/2/2019 at 7:00 PM, Uncoupledspy said:

I think the idea of a shopping mall will be fantastic for gta vi, think about it everything u want to buy all in one location spot, then after your shopping turn it to a shopping mall massacre.

Like Vice City had?